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Things I have built

A selection of projects from more than a decade of hands-on engineering, from competition robots, a Mars rover prototype and DUET's first flying drone to industrial automation and full-stack web applications.

Web Development · 2026 – Present

raselrana.com.bd — Personal Website and Content Platform

My professional home on the web: a full-stack Next.js platform with a private dashboard that manages every page, image and document on the site, joined to a separate technical blog.

  • Next.js
  • React
  • Tailwind CSS
  • MongoDB
  • Cloudinary
  • Resend
  • Framer Motion
  • Vercel
  • Cloudflare
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Robotics · 2016

BD Martian-1 — Mars Rover for the University Rover Challenge

A next-generation Mars rover prototype built by Team DUET TimeOut for the University Rover Challenge, the world's leading robotics competition for student-built planetary rovers. The team qualified for the URC 2017 final in Utah, USA, as one of around 30 teams selected worldwide.

  • Robotics
  • Mars Rover
  • Embedded Systems
  • Motor Control
  • Wireless Control
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Our self-built quadcopter in flight in DUET Campus, 11 August 2017

Robotics · 2015 – 2017

Multirotor Drone Design and Control — DUET's First Flying Drone

A self-funded quadcopter designed, built and tuned from scratch by Team DUET Runway-71, which I founded and led. On 11 August 2017, it made the first successful drone flight in DUET's history.

  • Drones
  • Flight Control
  • brushless motors
  • GPS
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Our line follower and maze, built in-house on a custom circular PCB with an Arduino Nano controller

Robotics · 2016

Title: Line Follower and Maze-Solving Robot

A compact autonomous robot that Team DUET Robo Express designed and built entirely in-house, from circuit design and simulation to a hand-made PCB, soldering, programming and tuning. It won 2nd Runner-up at the Global Robotics Challenge 2016, the IARC Bangladesh Zonal round.

  • Autonomous Robots
  • Arduino
  • PCB Design
  • Proteus
  • Embedded Systems
  • Sensors
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Bode plot of the piezoelectric tube (PZT) system with the double velocity feedback controller (DVFC), from my B.Sc. thesis at DUET

Research · 2017 – 2018

Comparative Analysis of Control Techniques for High-Speed Mechatronic Systems

My B.Sc. thesis at DUET: a simulation study comparing five feedback control techniques for high-speed nanopositioning systems, an atomic force microscope (AFM) and a piezoelectric tube scanner (PZT). We designed and tuned each controller in MATLAB and Simulink, then compared their stability, speed, damping and tracking to find the best controller for each system.

  • Control Systems
  • MATLAB
  • Simulink
  • Nanopositioning
  • Controller Design
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Industrial Automation · 2017

Conveyor Control with Siemens LOGO PLC

A university project that automates a conveyor belt with a Siemens LOGO PLC, using inductive proximity and capacitive sensors to detect items on the belt and control the motor automatically. It recreated, on a small scale, the sensor-driven material handling used on production lines across industry.

  • PLC
  • Siemens LOGO
  • Industrial Automation
  • Proximity Sensors
  • Motor Control
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Industrial Automation · 2016

Star-Delta Motor Starter (Contactor and PLC Versions)

A university project that builds a star-delta starter for a three-phase induction motor in two versions: a conventional design with magnetic contactors and a timer, and an automated version controlled by a Siemens LOGO PLC. Comparing the two showed how PLC-based control replaces fixed wiring with flexible, programmable logic.

  • Motor Control
  • PLC
  • Siemens LOGO
  • Electrical Systems
  • Industrial Automation
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Industrial Automation · 2017

Motor Speed Control with a Variable Frequency Drive and Siemens LOGO PLC

A university project that controls an induction motor's speed, direction, acceleration and deceleration through a variable frequency drive (VFD), automated by a Siemens LOGO PLC. It showed how the PLC-and-VFD combination used across modern industry gives smooth, efficient and programmable motor control.

  • VFD
  • PLC
  • Siemens LOGO
  • Motor Control
  • Industrial Automation
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